TY - JOUR
AU - Lorcin, Patricia M. E.
AB - 540 Reviews of Books social and business history, and constructive engage­ or mature markets, German entrepreneurs developed ment with historiography combine to make a substan­ a greater reliance on the state for interest guarantees tial contribution to the social history of early industri­ on common stock, just as German railroads recruited alization. more government officials for administrative expertise Then's comparison of English and German railroads and political connections. Overall, the widespread and their entrepreneurs might be seen as a method­ linkage of gentry and rural titled classes with the ological fusion of Alfred D. Chandler and Jiirgen English railroad world stands in stark contrast with Kocka. Whereas the former emphasized the firm's German railways, the leadership of which remained internal management structure as critical for under­ urban and bourgeois. This case study confirms the view of an English "open" elite. Not only did English standing the dynamics of capitalist expansion, Kocka has long sought to integrate such exogenous factors as railroad directors possess more country estates, but the state, education, and political economy into anal­ their sons also attended university and moved into the yses of industrial relations and entrepreneurial prac­ free professions with greater regularity. On the Ger­ 
TI - Julia Clancy-Smith and Frances Gouda, editors. Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender, and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 1998. Pp. xi, 348. $59.50
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/104.2.540
DA - 1999-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/julia-clancy-smith-and-frances-gouda-editors-domesticating-the-empire-8iX4BAOM6Q
SP - 540
EP - 542
VL - 104
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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